Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

A new pro-coal piece of propaganda wonders why coal mines aren’t allowed to take the tops of mountains as easily as women can take off their shirts. Seriously.

A poster making the rounds protests against Appalachian native Ashley Judd, who opposes mountaintop removal coal mining. It asks, “Ashley Judd makes a living taking off her top. Why can’t coal miners?”

Why? For one thing, Ashley Judd knows how to put her top back on. The coal mining companies don’t put the tops back on mountains. They just blow the mountains up and dump the debris into mountain streams.

Secondly, when Ashley Judd takes her top off, she doesn’t dump huge amounts of toxic heavy metals like arsenic into the local drinking water supply. Mountaintop removal coal mining does involve such toxic dumping.

Do these big coal companies truly not understand the difference? Anyone who has flown over the Appalachians recently, and seen the great scars on our nation created by mountaintop removal coal mining gets it.

Bradford Braley, who apparently got the privilege of conducting an officially-sanctioned big government worship service in front of the House of Representatives last week just because he’s the brother of Congressman Bruce Braley, dropped the ball.

Braley had the chance to pray for an end to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but what did he do? He prayed for a little emotional manipulation instead.

He prayed, “Inspire a sense of awe and wonder at the bountiful resources of this land, and in light of the environmental tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico, may we humbly dedicate ourselves to preserving and protecting those resources.”

Braley had the chance to stand before the most powerful legislature on Earth, and to pray to his supernatural, all powerful deity, but all he asked for was for his deity to inspire a sense of awe, and to encourage people humbly dedicate themselves? If his God is truly as all-powerful, why didn’t Bradford Braley just ask his God to make the oil spill go away?

Does Braley not really believe in the power of prayer, or was he just being stingy?

Today, I found a dollar for Ron Paul, and a dollar against Ron Paul. They’re the same dollar.

Who is Ron Paul? A loser.

Way to waste a vote! RonPaul2008.com

As you can see, this dollar bill is also against the eye at the top of the pyramid. That’ll stop the New World Order!

On the same show of Face the Nation where U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann claimed that some parts of the private economy are not parts of the private economy, Senator Jim DeMint appeared to inform the world that the health care reform legislation just passed by congressional Democrats “mocks Americans”.

How does health care reform mock Americans? I just so happened to walk by the dressing room for recently passed legislation at the Library of Congress the other day, and overheard the following comments:

“Those Americans are so healthy now, they think their shit don’t stink!”

“Anyone can be healthy. It takes style to get sick!”

“Americans these days are a bunch of scaredy cats, needing reliable medical insurance. Oooh, watch out! Cancer’s gonna get you!”

“Is baby feeling sick and sniffly? Go to the doctor, baby!”

“Oh poor me! I have muscular dystrophy! I need medicine!”

See? Jim DeMint was telling the truth. Health care reform does indeed mock Americans, and our obsession with being healthy. Isn’t it just humiliating?